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Articles can be emailed as an attachment to editor@atom.org.au (Microsoft
Word). Feature articles should not exceed 4,000 words. Reviews should
be approximately 2,000 words. Interviews should not exceed 2,000 words.
Conference papers will be considered for publication as is, but will
not be refereed unless they have been re-written to meet the appropriate
academic criteria, following the Metro magazine style guide.
Please keep all formatting to a minimum, the only formatting required
is:

sub-headings to be in bold;

film and book titles in italics;

quotations over thirty words in italics;

single space only between sentences; text double-spaced and left
justified;

use endnotes, rather than footnotes, and all references should follow Metro’s
style guide, as below.

Please note: Rather than embed images within word documents, remember
to send the image files separately as JPEGs or TIFFs.

Writers are expected to thoroughly check their work for spelling, grammatical
and typographical errors before submission; articles with an
inordinate number of errors, or that do not conform to our style guide,
will be asked to re-submit.

Please include a brief, one-sentence writer’s
by-line to run at the end of the article, and full contact details
for our database. With feature articles, if possible, please
include a writer’s photograph (this may be emailed as a JPEG,
or mailed as a hard copy. Images will be returned upon request.

STYLE AND REFERENCING GUIDELINES
The following points offer a basic style guideline, as of 2007. All articles
submitted to Metro magazine or Screen Education magazine
for consideration must follow these guidelines:

film titles to be printed in italics, with name of director and year
of production in brackets after first appearance of title e.g. Eight
Men Out (John Sayles, 1988)

actor’s name to be given in brackets after first mention of
character name – e.g. Henry Hill (Ray Liotta) in Goodfellas (Martin
Scorsese, 1990)

articles to be referenced with endnotes; endnote markers to be superscripted
Arabic numerals, following all punctuation

e.g. ‘The look of a film comes out of the story.’.1

referencing details as follows: author (including where possible
first name, not just initial), ‘title of article’, title
of book/journal, publishing house, city of publication, year of
publication, page numbers (if relevant); for subsequent references,
use ibid./op. cit.

e.g. In her article on the mysteries of film marketing, Lyla
Wilson notes ‘There are no hard and fast rules; as William
Goldman famously declared “nobody knows anything”’.

If a quote is embedded within a sentence, the full stop follows the
quotation marks (see above).

quotations of more than thirty words to be in their own paragraph,
italicized and without quotation marks (see below). Please indicate
whether any emphases are yours or original. Use square brackets when
adding your own text within a quotation.

Ellipses are to be used to mark the omission of words within quotations,
e.g.

In a man’s interior world, perhaps there are secrets
locked away; each one of us contains the best and the worst,
by our material condition … Only the shining intoxication
of fresh love can sometimes dissipate this dark threat: but let
the new woman in a man’s life be discreet; the hidden places
of the masculine self are forbidden to her and, above all, those
where … past love lies.
(note that only three points are used, with a space either side,
even if the ellipses comes at the end of a sentence, in general,
ellipses don’t figure at the beginning of stand alone [over
thirty words] quotations).

Web sites should be cited in full and followed by the date accessed.
Details of articles published on the web should be referenced in the
standard form, as above.
e.g. Kathy Pollit, ‘Kristof to the rescue’, The Nation http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20040301&s=pollitt
Accessed 18 March 2004.

dates to be given as follows: 10 September 2001 (day-month-year,
no punctuation)

eighteenth century (not 18th century, C18)

1960s (not 1960’s, sixties, ’60s)

First World War, Second World War, World War Two (not WW2,
World War 2, etc.)

numbers from one to ninety-nine are to be written out in full. Numerals
for 100 onwards. The exceptions to this are 95-year-old, 2am (otherwise
time is written out in full e.g. seven o’clock, ten to six)

Metro magazine and Screen Education magazine use the Oxford
Guide to Style, The Oxford Dictionary for Writers and Editors,
the Oxford Dictionary of Foreign Words & Phrases and the Oxford
Dictionary. For all questions about grammar, punctuation and preferred
spellings, please refer to one of the above.

FURTHER INFORMATION
Australian Teachers of Media (ATOM) is a non-profit organization and,
unfortunately, we are unable to pay our contributors anything representative
of the effort that goes into an article. Book reviews are unpaid (the
reviewer keeps their review copy), whilst feature articles attract
an honorarium fee (this varies slightly according to word length).

Please note that Metro and Screen Education are available
online. We ask that all writers sign a release form allowing their work
to be published in this format.

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